A Walk in the Garden

Visited a 'formal' garden yesterday. A well to do family that knew Prince Edward (the Duke of Windsor to be) and had peeps such as Laurence Olivier, and Vivienne Leigh to stay. The garden was very picturesque with a water feature almost Victorian in design, and in one of the pools, guess what Elvie saw. Afterwards the lady showing us round the house told us it was a rattlesnake. Later our tame naturalist Suranga confirmed it was a water snake, and not poisonous. Elvie was very brave getting so close!